Nine-tenths of the universe, in fact, is the paperwork.
-Terry Pratchett, Thief of Time

Surreal Life II

From an email I received:
The FCC has decided that information about telephone service outages has
national security implications and will no longer be available to the
public. Those who disagree say that the information is critical to measuring
phone reliability by various companies. See the news item in theWashington Post. (Free Registration Required)